Kalu Rinpoche

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Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

Kalu Rinpoche

English Phonetics	Kalu Rinpoche, Karma Rangjung Kunkhyab

Other names

• ཀར་ལུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཀརྨ་རང་བྱུང་ཀུན་ཁྱབ

Alternate names

• Karma Rangjung Kunkhyab

Dates

Birth:	1905
Death:	1989
Place of birth:	Treshö Gang Chi Rawa district in the Hor region of Kham, Eastern Tibet.

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Rab Jyung

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About

Primary Language:	Tibetan

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Publications

• Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism: The Gem Ornament of Manifold Oral Instructions Which Benefits Each and Everyone Appropriately. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

• Luminous Mind: Fundamentals of Spiritual Practice. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1996.

• Gently Whispered: Oral Teachings by the Very Venerable Kalu Rinpoche. Compiled, Edited, and Annotated by Elizabeth Selandia. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1995.

• Excellent Buddhism: An Exemplary Life. Translation from Tibetan into French by François Jaquemart. English Translation by Christiane Buchet. San Francisco: ClearPoint Press, 1995.

• Profound Buddhism: From Hinayana to Vajrayana. Translation from Tibetan into French by François Jaquemart. English Translation by Christiane Buchet. San Francisco, ClearPoint Press, 1995.

• Secret Buddhism: Vajrayana Practices. Translation from Tibetan into French by François Jaquemart. English Translation by Christiane Buchet.San Francisco: ClearPoint Press, 2002.

• The Dharma: That Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1986.

Links

Wiki Pages

• Kalu Rinpoche on the BNW

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Names

Kalu Rinpoche
Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche
Rangjung Kunchab
H.H. Kalu Rinpoche
Wylie:
kar lu rin po che
khyab rje rdo rje 'chang kar lu rin po che
ka.rma rang byung kun khyab
kar lu rin po che ka.rma ran byung kun khyab
mkhan po kar lu ka.rma rang byung kun khyab
Other transliterations in use:
WorldCat: Karma-raṅ-byuṅ-kun-khyab-phrin-las
Karma-raṅ-byuṅ-kun-khyab-phrin-las, Khenpo Kalu

Dates

b. 1905 in the district of Treshö Gang chi Rawa in the Hor region of Kham
d. May 10, 1989

Other Biographical Information

Online Bio and links to his sangha: http://www.kdk-nyc.org/hh-kalu-rinpoche

Wikipedia entry

Writings

Scan of Kalu Rinpoche Hand Written Tibetan Lesson

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.